Brooder and heater therefor.



Nd. 802,209. PATENTED OCT. 17, 1905. P. G, HARE.

BROODER AND HEATER THEREFOR.

APPLIGATION FILED SEPT. 12.1904.

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FRANKLIN O. HARE, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO CYPHERS INOUBATOR (.OMPANY, OF BUFFALO,

OF NEV YORK.

NETV YORK, A CORPORATION BROODER AND HEATER THEREFOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 1'7. 1905.

Application filed September 12, 1904. Serial No. 224,217.

ers therefor; and it consists in the devices and arrangements hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a central vertical section through a brooder containing the present invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation of a part thereof, and Fig. 3 is a cross-section on the line 3 3 of Figs. 1 and 2.

The brooder has a roof 1, sides 2 2, a bottom 3, and a floor 41 above said bottom. The top is removable, and a door 5 into the lower compartment 6 may be used for regulating the inlet of air. The upper or brooder compartment 7 above the floor 4 is perforated, as at 8. and this perforation may have a sheetmetal support 9 extending from its edges, for the purpose hereinafter described. A door may be provided in the upper or brooder compartment.

The brooder-heater consists of the drum 10, that is large in diameter and thin and is formed of a bottom 12, having a central opening 11, a top 13, parallel to the bottom, and a shallow or narrow side or periphery 30. Inside the drum and attached to the top 13 by its base edge is a hollow cone 14, made of sheet metal, whose apex is directed downward and is opposite the center of the opening 11. Between the cone 141 and the top 13 is a dead-air space, making an insulator for preventing an upward radiation of heat from the cone 14 and top 13. An outlet or chimney 15 passing out of the breeder connects the lower part of the drum adjacent to the bottom 12 with the outer air. The chimney is placed at one side of the drum, and this compels air passing into the drum through the perforation 8 and which is spread by means of the cone 14 to remain in the drum much longer than if the chimney were placed centrally.

From the edges of the perforation 8 in the bottom 11 of the drum there extends downward a tube 16, having a shelf 17at its lower end and a side opening 21, giving access to said shelf, as shown in the curved lines in Fig. land in frontelevation in Fig. 2. Alamp 18 is placed upon the shelf 17 and may be introduced through the opening 2.1,so that the lamp-chimney extends in to the tube 16. Around the tube 16 is a hot-air tube 19, having an opening 20 at its lower end. The upper part of the tube 19 extends wholly around the tube 16; but the lower part of said tube 19 extends only partly around the tube Miami on the opposite side of the tube 16 from the opening 21.. The upper end of the tube 19 connects with a perforated discharge portion, which in the present instance is a tube 22, outside of and at a distance from the tube 16 and formed of a suitable porous material or fabric, such as line wire-netting or burlap. This netting or burlap is held to the upper end of the tube 19 in any suitable manner, but is preferably removably attached thereto, as by the movable ring 23, and said netting or burlap is held to the bottom 12 of the drum in any suitable manner, but preferably removably, such as by the inner stationary ring 2 1 on the drum and the outer movable ring The heat-distributing means is either the drum 10 or the tube 19, having the perforated discharge portion, such as the perforated tube 22 or both said drum 10 and said tube 19.

The heater is adapted to be supported in and by the floor at and may be conveniently so supported by means of a projection extending outward from the tube 19, which can rest upon the floor 1 or, as in the present instance, upon the edge of the sheet-metal plate 9, thus supporting the lamp in suitable position in the lower chamber and the heater in the upper or brooder chamber. In the present case the projection or supporting means consists of a wire 26, engaging in perforations in the tube 19 and adapted to rest upon the metal plate 9. This wire may for easy manufacture be sprung into place.

The drum 10 may support the usual curtain 27 by means of a wire ring 28 around the periphery of the drum and engaging the curtain above the seamed edge 29 between the bottom 12 and the periphery or side 30 of the drum 10.

hat I claim is 1. In a brooder-heater, a drum having a per foration in its bottom, a hollow cone within said drum, having its base edge attached to the top of the drum and having its apex pointing downward over said perforation, an outlet from said drum, and a source of heat discharging into said perforation.

2. In a brooderheater, a drum havinga central perforation in its bottom, a hollow cone within said drum, having its base edge attached to the top of said drum, and having its apex pointing downward over said perforation, an outlet from said drum at one side thereof, and a source of heat discharging into said perforation.

3. In abrooder-heater adrum, having a central perforation in its bottom, a hollow cone within said drum having its base edge attached to the top of said drum, and having its apex pointing downward, an outlet from said drum at one side thereof, and extending to near the bottom of the drum, and a source of heat discharging into said perforation.

I. In a brooder-heater, the combination of a drum, having a perforation in its bottom, a tube connected to the edges of said perforation, a lamp-support carried by said tube, a hot-air tube outside of the first-mentioned tube, and means for supporting said drum and tubes in the brooder.

5. In a brooder-heater, the combination of a drum having a perforation in its bottom an inner tube attached to the edges of said perforation, and having a lamp-support, a hotair tube outside of the first-mentioned tube, and a porous tube outside of said inner tube, and connected to the top of said hot-air tube.

6. In a brooder-heater, a drum having a perforation in its bottom, an inner tube attached to the edges of said perforation, and having a lamp-support, an outer tube open at the bottom, and a porous tube extending upward from the top of said outer tube, and through which hot air is discharged into the brooder-chamber.

7. In a brooder-heater, a drum, having a perforation in its bottom, an inner tube attached to the edges of said perforation and having a lamp-support. an outer tube around said inner tube, and a tube of burlap extending upward from the upper end of said outer tube.

8. In a brooder-heater, a drum having a perforation in its bottom, and a downwardlyextending flange around said perforation, a downwardly-extending inner tube attached to the edge of said perforation, an outer tube around said inner tube, and a tube of burlap extending from around the top of said outer tube to and around said flange on the drum, and rings outside of said burlap for holding it to said outer tube and to said flange.

9. In a brooder-heater, the combination with the brooder having an upper and a lower chamber, separated by a floor, of a heater having a tubular portion extending through said floor, and a projecting part adapted to rest on said floor, and a lamp-support below said floor.

10. The combination with a brooder having an upper chamber and a lower chamber, separated by a floor, of a brooder-heater having a tubular portion extending through said floor, a projecting portion extending from said tubular portion adapted to rest upon said floor to su pportsaid heater, heat-distributing means attached to said tubular port-ion above said floor, and a lamp-support attached to said tubular portion below said floor.

11. The combination with a brooder having an upper and a lower chamber, separated by a floor, of a brooder-heater consisting of a tubular portion extending through said floor, and having a lamp-support below said floor, of a wire-supporting means extending around said tubular portion and adapted to engage the same and to rest upon said floor for supporting said heater.

FRANKLIN G. HARE.

Witnesses:

CHAS. NEWTON, E. J. PLUMLEY. 

